A New Year!
The Craft Company has had a great
year this year with many new developments and novel ideas inspiring it. The year
ended with The Craft Company being featured in Libas International magazine's annual issue and
I am so proud of all my workers and the work we do.
The article talks about my
use of Mughal icons in my work. The Noor Jehan painting I keep returning to has
a haunting quality to it. Like an elegant, ethereal Botticelli the artist seems
to have captured her with mystery, beauty and tenderness.
Saba Imtiaz who wrote the article
is an eminent journalist captured the mood of the Craft Company and my love for
creating things eloquently.
There are so many more things to do
this year and with the city and the country in so much turmoil I wish we can
keep going despite the distractions. My article in the Express Tribune this week talked about the Politics of Hatred that is so prevalent in Pakistan. It
is so sad that the people of Hazara have to sit in on the streets and wait to
bury their dead in hope that justice will prevail. I have been looking into the
history of these people and their sad persecution over the years. There is so
much buried animosity inherited by whole tribes of people that just does not
end and is lived and relived by each generation. Instead of trying to quench
the diversity of the people of this country why not celebrate it and respect
people for their own religion, their tradition and embrace the multiculturalism
that is the subcontinent.
